lot

记忆“lot”可以通过关联法，将其与“log”相似联想。想象一个“log”是木材的木块，而“lot”就是一大堆这样的木块，代表很多或大量的意思。这种方法通过视觉和数量上的相似性帮助记忆“lot”的含义。

lot 抽签，份额，命运，块，批，许多

来自hlot,用于抽签的小物件，骰子，草，木条等，词源不详。可能来自PIE*kel,砍，切，词源同clone,cleric,clastic.并引申诸多词义。常见于词组a lot of,即一块，一批，大量的。

lot

lot: [OE] Lot goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlut-, which appears to have denoted the use of objects to make decisions by chance (Old English hlot was used for such an object). The first inklings of the modern range of senses did not emerge until the 18th century, when lot began to be used for a ‘set of things’. ‘Large number, many’ followed in the 19th century. The Germanic word was borrowed into the Romance languages, and of its descendants English has acquired allot [16] (from Old French) and lotto [18] (from Italian). Lottery [16] comes from the Dutch derivative loterij.
=> allot, lottery, lotto

lot (n.)

Old English hlot "object (anything from dice to straw, but often a chip of wood with a name inscribed on it) used to determine someone's share," also "what falls to a person by lot," from Proto-Germanic *khlutom (cognates: Old Norse hlutr "lot, share," Old Frisian hlot "lot," Old Saxon hlot, Middle Dutch, Dutch lot, Old High German hluz "share of land," German Los; Old English hleotan "to cast lots, to foretell"), of unknown origin. The object was placed with others in a receptacle, which was shaken, the winner being the one that fell out first. Hence, to cast lots. In some cases the lots were drawn by hand. The word was adopted from Germanic into the Romanic languages (compare lottery, lotto). Meaning "choice resulting from the casting of lots" first attested c. 1200.

Sense of "plot of land" is first recorded 1630s (distribution of the best property in new settlements often determined by casting lots), that of "group, collection" is 1725, from notion of auction lots. The generalized sense of "great many" is first attested in 1812. To cast (one's) lot with another is to agree to share winnings.

1. I got quite a lot of ribbing from my team-mates.

队友们经常开我的玩笑。

2. I get very nervous because I'm using a lot of expensive equipment.

因为正在使用很多昂贵的设备，所以我非常紧张。

3. Do you sweat a lot or flush a lot?

你常出汗或是脸上常发烫吗？

4. The victim suffered a dreadful injury and lost a lot of blood.

受害者受了重伤，大量失血。

5. A block up the street I found a parking lot.

沿着街道往北过了一个街区，我找到了一个停车场。

【luck, lot, destiny, fortune, doom, fate】
这组词都有“命运”的意思，其区别是：
luck: 普通日常用词，指好的或坏的运气，尤多指好运气，有时也指成功或愉快的结局。
lot: 多指偶然的运气或终身遭受的不幸命运。
destiny: 普通用词，侧重预先注定的命运，对未来命运的美好憧憬。
fortune: 普通用词，指由机会或运气来决定的一种命运，如暗示一种比fate好的运气或一种愉快的未来。
doom: 指最终的，常常是灾难性或毁灭性的命运，隐含不可避免的意味。
fate: 较庄严用词，多指不幸的命运，暗示不可避免，令人畏惧和人的意志无法改变，宿命论色彩较浓。